Phase separation and liquid crystallization of complementary sequences in mixtures of nanoDNA oligomers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1111-1117

  Zanchetta, Giuliano ^a   Nakata, Michi ^b   Buscaglia, Marco ^a   Bellini, Tommaso ^a   Clark, Noel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensation; Depletion; Nucleation; PEG; Prebiotic

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGOMER; PREBIOTIC AGENT; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; DNA; HETERODUPLEX; NANOMATERIAL;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENERGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 39549098667     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711319105     Document Type: Article

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